Rockwell had been weighing a handful of other offers including a supporting role in Sony’s “Annie” reboot, but it appears that “Poltergeist” will be his next project. He is repped by Gersh and Untitled Entertainment.

A “reboot” is what The Amazing Spider-Man is, a new origin movie just a few years after the original. This is a remake, after 20 or 30 years, just sounds like different character names. Studio politically correct word.

No, time has no bearing on it. A reboot is a story based on characters from a pre-existing movie that isn’t a sequel and has a new take on it. A remake follows the same storyline with very minor changes.

Why are there so many remakes? Where’s all the original ideas? Millions of amazing books have yet to be tapped, yet the filmmakers want to “reboot” everything. Generation remake. What this generation of filmmakers should be named.